All you do is put the wet paper towels with the ashes on, against the glass & scrub it just like you would scrub any window, until the whole thing is smeared up, like the next picture below.

Here it is all smeared up, but the dirt is no longer stuck to the glass, just like it gets with any kind of cleaner.

Then using the other wet paper towels one at a time, keep wiping the glass. It will get cleaner with each wet paper towel. How many wet paper towels it takes will depend on how dirty it was to begin with.

Then when it looks clean enough to you, buff it with the dry paper towel-----Done !

Here it is with the door closed.

There are a couple light streaks, meaning I should have used one more wet towel---I only used 2, after the ashes.

Those light colored dots are on the back wall of my smoker, just like the light circle around my heat sensor.

Also, if your glass is a lot dirtier than mine was, you could still use the razor blade first---Then this method.

For those of you who never tried this on the inside of your woodstove door glass---You really Must Try It !!!!

Yes, pellet ashes should work - Hardwood ash mixed with water forms lye, which is a basic solution like ammonia. Strength (pH) depends on how much ash & how much water. Good idea to use it to clean the smoker... Doh! Why didnt I think of that! Main use for centuries was to make lye soap, candles, & tan hides.

(I tried some of those frontier skills when I was a kid, still remember some of it - like when an egg floats, you have the right pH for tanning a deerskin. Useful trivia if society ever collapses!)

Yes, pellet ashes should work - Hardwood ash mixed with water forms lye, which is a basic solution like ammonia. Strength (pH) depends on how much ash & how much water. Good idea to use it to clean the smoker... Doh! Why didnt I think of that! Main use for centuries was to make lye soap, candles, & tan hides.

(I tried some of those frontier skills when I was a kid, still remember some of it - like when an egg floats, you have the right pH for tanning a deerskin. Useful trivia if society ever collapses!)

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Thanks plj,

I never knew any of that lye stuff (very interesting), but somebody told me about it, around 30 years ago, and I couldn't believe how it cleaned my woodstove door glass. Been using it ever since.

Bear -- thanks for the post! I've been envious of the pics of your MES with the clean window. Mine is pretty gummed up at this point. I'm going to use this approach -- I'll use the ashes from my AMNPS.

And thanks PLJ for the explanation of why it works -- makes sense to me!

Bear -- thanks for the post! I've been envious of the pics of your MES with the clean window. Mine is pretty gummed up at this point. I'm going to use this approach -- I'll use the ashes from my AMNPS.

And thanks PLJ for the explanation of why it works -- makes sense to me!

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Thanks John!!!
I hope that works for you, but I'm thinking the AMNPS ashes may be too fine.

It kinda gets like talcum powder.

Let us know.

If it doesn't work good, living in Ohio, even if you don't have a woodstove, it shouldn't be hard to get a small container of ashes from a friend or relative. It would last forever, because you only use a minuscule amount each time.